I believe that's addressed to me.
The federal government can do a number of things.
Number one, it can create a capital pool to enable either a public builder or public financing, whether that's done through a new institution or through CMHC, so that these projects can get going, and local builders and local non-profits will have a better sense of some of the better locations.
Another thing it can do is a land bank. The federal government owns a substantial amount of property in our urban areas, whether it be post offices or other government property. A lot of those properties are not well utilized. Doing long-term leaseholds of that public property is a way to provide non-market builders an ability to eliminate the land value component from their overarching building costs.
The other thing to do is to look to exempt federal investment from the same strict rules that would otherwise apply to processes and built forms across Canada, but particularly in areas like Toronto and Vancouver, where the limitations and barriers are extensive. If you pursue also a standardization of different types of building models, you should also be able to reduce costs.
The plethora of doing these things or even applying a national building code on top of it are all ways the federal government can help spur the development of non-market and public housing.